In fact, modern warfare depends on production and transportation, and the working population and the level of productivity determine the outcome of war to a large extent. Resources are also a very important factor, such as steel, aluminum, copper, rubber, and oil, which are also the raw materials for the production of the army.

With the outbreak of the war, the industrial production of the Tang Empire quickly got rid of the economic crisis and returned to the level of its heyday because of a large number of military orders.

Ever since the great discoveries of the Age of Discovery, which began in the early days of the Empire, the vast ocean has been a dream of human exploration of the earth. After that, the warships of the Tang Empire crisscrossed the seas, and the colonies spread all over the world, and they have always firmly occupied the position of the hegemon of the seas. All this makes people deeply aware that whoever owns the ocean controls the whole world!

Since mankind entered the 14th century, the traditional European continental countries, with the huge wealth accumulated by the new industrial revolution, began their actions to challenge the maritime supremacy of the Tang Empire - the most direct manifestation of which was the maritime arms race before the last war.

The Tang Empire won the naval arms race with its profound heritage, and although it was also dragged to exhaustion, it finally won the war.

The progress of science and industrial technology has subverted mankind's perception of military warfare.

"The outcome of the war was actually decided on the slipway!"

This is a famous saying in the Navy.

Compared with the army, the navy relied more on military equipment in war, and after the advent of the aircraft carrier era, almost the original large number of battleships suddenly lost its usefulness.

Even with the massive use of welding technology and the latest modular construction methods, the construction of a large fleet aircraft carrier takes at least more than a year, which, combined with sea trials and personnel training, simply cannot form combat effectiveness without two years.

The Empire's major naval shipyards were concentrated along the coast of East Asia, and it was the policy of the highest decision-makers: the military-industrial complex was generally not built outside the core of East Asia, except for a few small arms manufacturing plants.

At present, there are 10 large docks of more than 50,000 tons in the main shipyards of the Great Empire, and there are 11 in European countries combined, and all the shipyards of the Great Empire with large docks of more than 35,000 tons add up to 24, that is to say, they are currently building at most 24 "Fucheng" class aircraft carriers every year, and all large docks of more than 30,000 tons in the European Union add up to 17.

In terms of shipbuilding capacity, the European Union is not much behind the Tang Empire, but the annual steel output of the Tang Dynasty exceeds 260 million tons, and domestic shipbuilding enterprises can build new warships and merchant ships without any resource restrictions, while the European Union's annual steel output of 60 million tons does not have enough resources to support long-term consumption.

The exploitation of the Libyan oil fields, together with the discovery of oil fields by the East Franconians in Tunisia and Algeria, although the annual production is currently only 750 tons, and the Romanian oil fields, which are only 11 million tons per year, cannot meet the needs of the European Union for the war effort, and every ton of oil resources is now very valuable to the European Union.

The other is rubber resources. The Tang Empire controlled almost all of the world's rubber producing areas. Except for a small amount of rubber production in West Africa, almost more than ninety percent of the world's natural rubber is under the control of the Tang Empire.

Now, this massive war machine is starting to spin at an accelerated pace.

With the conquest of the Kingdom of Poland, the Baltic States, and the Grand Duchy of Kiev by the West Frankish Empire, the ignition has burned to the western border of the Dnieper Empire. The Imperial Army also carried out large-scale mobilization, and the demand for army equipment also triggered a conflict between the army and navy within the empire for resources.

Under the coordination of Prime Minister Li Jintang, the distribution plan for major industrial resources is 50 percent for the military industry, 50 percent for the army and navy, 60 percent for the army and 40 percent for the navy for non-ferrous metals such as copper and aluminum. Crude oil production is sufficient, so there is no need to coordinate.

Before the completion of military production, equipment and personnel training, the empire temporarily took a defensive position.

While the Imperial Army focused its efforts on eastern Europe, the Imperial Navy's strategy was to defend the southern part of South America in the Caribbean first.

Thanks to the support of land-based aviation, the European Union's landing operation on Shinkashima ended in failure. Now they have their sights set on the South Atlantic.

In the early morning of May 11, 306, in the waters east of the mouth of the Beida River (Amazon), the Tang "NM-S36" submarine, which was on alert duty, spotted a large European fleet sailing out of Cayenne Port and heading directly towards the eastern corner.

The Tang submarine immediately accelerated closer and attempted to attack, but the enemy's fleet was too fast, and it could only watch as this huge fleet disappeared into the darkness......

Since the North Atlantic Fleet under the command of Admiral Kubert was pinned down in the Caribbean Sea and the northeastern waters of North America, in order to support the independent forces of the "South American Republics" in seizing the Eastern Cape, the European Combined Navy had to cobble together a T Fleet to be stationed at Cayenne Naval Base to undertake combat missions in the direction of the South Atlantic. This fleet includes two battle cruisers such as the flagship "Ocean", four battleships of the "Brittany" class and aircraft carriers "Bain" and "Lamanche", as well as six cruisers and 12 destroyers.

The purpose of Admiral Jean Sur's trip to this T fleet was to be ordered to "settle" a detachment of Tang cruisers stationed at the Eastern Cape.

Now stationed at the Dongjiao Military Port is a cruiser detachment of the South Atlantic Fleet of the Tang State, including two "Qinzhou" class cruisers with a displacement of almost 10,000 tons.

In accordance with the instructions of the Combined Fleet Command in Europe, the Admiralty of the Kingdom of East Francia ordered Admiral James Jean Sur in Cayenne to lead the T Fleet to prepare for the "trebuchet" operation to attack the Tang fleet in the East Cape on May 14, in order to solve the threat of the Tang light fleet in the East Cape to the Atlantic route.

Admiral Jean Soul, following the orders of the Admiralty, led his entire fleet to the East Point. Newer F-class destroyers form a short-range defensive circle, while several older destroyers built late in World War I perform anti-submarine patrol missions on the perimeter.

After the actions of the East Frankish fleet were detected by the Tang Navy, according to the instructions of the Admiralty, Admiral Ding Guozhen, the new commander of the South Atlantic Fleet, was also ordered to set off from the naval base at the mouth of the Nanda River and lead the fleet north to meet the enemy......